How can I make Windows XP bootable again?

Posted by Scott Severance on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Scott Severance
Published on 2012-05-24T04:08:10Z Indexed on 2012/09/19 15:43 UTC
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Some time ago, I replaced my hard drive. Foolishly, I imaged the individual partitions, not the entire drive. That meant that my system was unbootable. For my primary OS (Linux), that was no problem as I could simply re-run GRUB. However Windows XP remains unbootable.

The machine in question is a netbook which doesn't have a CD drive or a restore partition, so I can't boot from a Windows CD and run fixmbr. How can I fix Windows?

Here's a picture of what I see when I try to boot Windows from the GRUB menu:

I don't actually have an XP CD, since of my two machines, the netbook in question has neither a restore partition nor a CD, and my other XP machine only came with a restore partition. So I'll also need a way to get hold of the necessary files.

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